The public first saw a transcript of a secret recording made of one of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's staff meetings after New Times published it online.Last week, we noticed that Channel 5 News (KPHO-TV) had obtained the actual audio recording and aired pieces of it in a broadcast. That...
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With oral arguments scheduled to take place April 25 before the U.S. Supreme Court on Arizona's breathing-while-brown statute Senate Bill 1070, Arizona District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton today enjoined two sections of the law she had not previously put on hold in 2010, when she stymied the most egregious parts...
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Be it a First Friday or a Third Friday -- we're just excited about having an excuse (not that we need one) to see some great art exhibitions. Some are opening tonight Downtown, others have opened this month throughout metro Phoenix. But you better believe that we're making the loop and...
Peoria police are filing animal cruelty charges against a Peoria woman who allowed her pit bull to walk around on a bloody stump for about a year without treating its injuries. Cops contacted Michelle Busse, 22, on January 7, after someone complained that she had not gotten medical treatment for...
On Saturday night, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office raided a Phoenix cockfight, arresting 40 people -- 17 of them alleged to be illegal immigrants.One of those alleged illegal immigrants, 43-year-old Pedro Reyes-Lopez, was identified as the owner of the house, which earned him a big mugshot in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's...
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Our little band of Chow Bella writers is a diverse group, but we do have a few things in common. We all put our pants on one leg at a time, and we all gotta go. And we've all been to a lot of bathrooms in a lot of restaurants...
Less than three months into his new stint as executive chef at Spotted Donkey Cantina, the upscale Southwestern and Mexican restaurant at Hayden Village in Scottsdale, Robert McGrath, the James Beard Award-winning chef and former owner of Roaring Fork, is gone. McGrath took the Spotted Donkey gig last October, after...
There are exactly 111 days left until this year's Phoenix Comicon, and the time probably can't pass quick enough for some local geeks. Especially since organizers of the annual pop culture fest announced some blockbuster names last night that will be appearing at this year's event.And it includes most of...
The Republican Presidential debate in Mesa just wrapped up a few minutes ago, and in the mid-debate words of Mitt Romney, "I didn't follow all of that, but I can tell you this..." Among the few Arizona-related topics discussed included, unsurprisingly, immigration and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. CNN moderator...
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Welcome to the Morning Buzz, a catch-up on interesting happenings around the city and country and a quick guide to what (and who) to keep your eyes on. We'll be here, first thing every weekday, to get you going. Here's what's buzzing this morning: 1. "Get to San Francisco"Eduardo Rivera graduated...
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Can I make purple velvet cupcakes? Or do I have to stick to red? Yes, it is possible to make purple velvet cupcakes. All you need is some good food coloring! Keep in mind that since there is cocoa powder in the recipe, they will turn out a darker purple...
Marion Patterson III, one of two men charged with murdering Arizona State University student Zachary Marco in October 2010, has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, according to a Maricopa County court spokesperson.Marco was 21 years old when he was gunned down after refusing to give up his belongings in a...
Tom Perez blasts Sheriff Joe in Phoenix yesterday Hey, did you hear that the U.S. Department of Justice is suing Sheriff Joe Arpaio?Well, in case you were hibernating beneath a saguaro on Thursday, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Tom Perez was in town to blast everyone's least-favorite sheriff for his racial-profiling,...
Around a decade ago, you could regularly spy the artwork of Jim Mahfood all around the Valley. The stark drawings created by the onetime Tempe resident (who's also known as Food One) were seen on fliers for hip-hop shows, in advertisements, in his comic books like Grrl Scouts, and the...
Listening to the oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on Arizona's breathing-while-brown law, Senate Bill 1070, prompted a daydream. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Antonin Scalia are in a battered pickup truck with garden tools visible in the back. Set in the midst of Sheriff Joe Arpaio country — as...
Bobby Ruffin Jr. was only 14 when a recruiter from Ashford University called. The boy from Birmingham, Michigan, thought he'd clicked on a link promising help finding money for college. It was actually just a lead generator for the for-profit online school's sales staff. At the time, Bobby was an...
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Jeffrey Martinson, who not long ago was facing a possible cell on death row, has won a new lease on his legal life with a momentous court ruling ordering a new trial. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sally Duncan's seven-page ruling overturned last November's guilty jury verdicts of first-degree murder...
Although supplying boy's adventure thrills on the side, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are remarkable for how they make the process of empirical brainwork, and the resulting discoveries, breathlessly exciting. Each Holmes tale simultaneously unlocks a mystery while deepening the enigma of its hero in a miraculously sustained piece...
If Jason Todd Ready had been a run-of-the-mill, delusional, Holocaust-denying racist neo-Nazi who liked to play with guns, I suppose we could could spare an ounce of surprise that, according to the Gilbert police, he killed himself and four others — including a baby girl, her mom, and her grandmother...
It's been a while since I first wrote about Attorney General Tom Horne's close friend Carmen Chenal's problems with the State Bar of Arizona and her being hired by the Arizona Attorney General's Office as an attorney in the criminal division, at a salary of $108,000.Chenal is one of many cronies...